The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.
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Exhausting
//ɪɡˈzɔstɪŋ//
Synonyms for "exhausting" (74 found)
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Synonyms
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2 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κοπώδης adj (Very tiring)
Belarusian
1 entries- знясі́льваючы adj (Very tiring)
Bulgarian
1 entries- изтощителен adj (Very tiring)
Dutch
2 entries- uitputtend adj (Very tiring)
- vermoeiend adj (Very tiring)
Finnish
1 entries- uuvuttava adj (Very tiring)
French
4 entries- exténuant adj (Very tiring)
- usant adj (Very tiring)
- épuisant adj (Very tiring)
- éreintant adj (Very tiring)
German
2 entries- anstrengend adj (Very tiring)
- strapaziös adj (Very tiring)
Greek
2 entries- εξαντλητικός adj (Very tiring)
- εξοντωτικός adj (Very tiring)
Hindi
1 entries- थकाऊ adj (Very tiring)
Hungarian
2 entries- fárasztó adj (Very tiring)
- kimerítő adj (Very tiring)
Ido
1 entries- exhaustanta adj (Very tiring)
Italian
4 entries- estenuante adj (Very tiring)
- faticoso adj (Very tiring)
- sfiancante adj (Very tiring)
- sfibrante adj (Very tiring)
Khmer
1 entries- យ៉ាប់ adj (Very tiring)
Macedonian
1 entries- исцрпен adj (Very tiring)
Polish
1 entries- wyczerpujący adj (Very tiring)
Romanian
3 entries- epuizant adj (Very tiring)
- extenuat adj (Very tiring)
- obositor adj (Very tiring)
Russian
2 entries- изнури́тельный adj (Very tiring)
- утоми́тельный adj (Very tiring)
Spanish
4 entries- agotador adj (Very tiring)
- exhaustivo adj (Very tiring)
- extenuador adj (Very tiring)
- extenuante adj (Very tiring)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Intensive courses are always the most exhausting.
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Tom found the exercise exhausting.
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The trip was exhausting.
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